Lotto 69 | [Art] Frans Hals. His life and work, 1914

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[Art] Frans Hals. His life and work, 1914

Wilhelm von Bode; M J Binder. Frans Hals; his life and work. Berlin: Photographsche Gesellschaft, 1914.


2 vols in folio, quarter vellum binding on cloth boards, edited by Wilhelm von Bode. With an essay by M.J. Binder.



Translated by Maurice Walter Brockwell. Title-page in red and black.
"The English edition of this work is limited to thirty-five copies on handmade Japanese paper, numbered 1 to 35, and two hundred copies on handmade Van Gelder paper, numbered 1 to 200.

This copy is printed on Van Gelder paper numbered 71.


Frans Hals the Elder (1582 - 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. He is known for his loose painterly brushwork